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    Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

    An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
    3 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

    Improve diagnosis for IMS Applications with Java and PL/I language interoperability

    In a standard IMS region, we can set TRAP / ABTERMENC /TERMTHDACT options through the CEEOPTS DD and activate SLIP to get a complete dump of the problem (if needed), but this is not possible in MPR regions with a mix of PL/I and Java because IMS s...
    3 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Submitted

    Password spray alerts various sources

    zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    Being able to protect an IMS TM system from to many BMP checkpoint messages

    In an IMS TM only system there is no way to configure the IMS system so it's protected from BMP's that flood the system with checkpoint messages. There is a parameter OPTIONS ISSUE681. That option isn't read by the IMS system when you have an IMS ...
    3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    Option for TRANSACT PLCTTIME time based on elapsed time (currently CPU time)

    Currently PLCTTIME is based on CPU time. However it is hard to transpose CPU time into the real world for transaction timeouts. If there was an option to set PLCTTIME based on elapsed time this could easily be mapped to the expiry time of the tran...
    3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    Enhance IMS TM Resource Adapter's setPassword method to handle RACF passphrases

    Currently the IMS TM Resource Adapter has two different methods for setting RACF passwords and for setting RACF passphrases (setPassword and setPasswordPhrase). This causes development and test effort when customers migrate from password to passph...
    3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Planned for future release

    Writing IMS type x'99' log records for CDC to an external/separate IMS Log dataset.

    WE are currently running a single image of IMS, and have CDC streaming of DB updates enabled to and Enterprise Event Hub. Due to the number of DB's enabled for streaming, the volume of log records written since enabling CDC has significantly incre...
    3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    Be able to preload classes in JVM for executing Java IMS transactions

    To avoid a significant CPU and elapsed time impact after a JVM restart—particularly on the first executed transactions—it may be a good idea to preload a list of Java classes before the business applications start running, during JVM initializatio...
    3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
    4 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

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